Trial reportInternational journal of methods in psychiatric research2021
Improving reports of health risks: Life history calendars and measurement of potentially traumatic experiences.
Trial report in International journal of methods in psychiatric research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Use of a self-completed life history calendar in relation to data completeness and accuracy.BMC medical research methodology · 2026Article
- Associations between childhood socioeconomic characteristics, race, and risk of adverse childhood experiences in a population-based sample of US-born non-Hispanic Black and White women.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Impact of COVID-19 on posttraumatic stress disorder in ICU survivors: a prospective observational comparative cohort study.Critical care (London, England) · 2024Observational
- Community exposure to armed conflict and subsequent onset of alcohol use disorder.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectivesRecall error biases reporting of earlier life experiences, even potentially traumatic experiences (PTEs). Better tools for accurate retrospective reporting of PTEs and other health risk factors have the potential for broad scientific and health intervention benefits.
methodsWe designed a life history calendar (LHC) to support this task and randomized more than 1000 individuals to each arm of a retrospective diagnostic interview, including detailed measures of PTEs, with and without the LHC. This is one of the largest experiments ever done to assess the benefit of an LHC approach and the only large-scale experiment done in a poor, agrarian, non-Western setting (rural Nepal).
resultsResults demonstrate use of an LHC in retrospective measurement can significantly increase lifetime reports of PTEs, especially reports of two or more PTEs. The LHC increases PTE reporting more for men and those with less education.
conclusionsThe LHC approach is practical for many uses ranging from large surveys of the general population to clinical intake of new patients. It significantly increases reporting of health risk factors.
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